During her fellowship, Charles will complete a book-length manuscript on the diversity of black students at selective colleges and universities in the United States. She will also work to develop a longer-term project that explores racial inequality in Philadelphia, modeled theoretically and methodologically after W.E.B. Du Bois’ classic study The Philadelphia Negro. The use of mapping and spatial statistics will be an important component of the project, as well as the production of policy-relevant scholarship and the training of undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences.

Camille Z. Charles

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The American Council on Education (ACE) honored Penn President Amy Gutmann with the 2015 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award. The award is given annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions and demonstrated sustained commitment to diversity in higher education.

A special visit from West Philadelphia elementary school students to Penn Libraries’ Emancipation Proclamation exhibit complements what the students are learning in their classes about the document.
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From Harare, Zimbabwe, Rutendo Chigora is a senior double majoring in international relations and political science, and minoring in English. In December, she was awarded one of the two Rhodes Scholarships available to students from Zimbabwe. She will study at the University of Oxford in Oxford,...